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The Fundamentals widening its sphere of influence as the centuries pass, while every .other book, after its first vogue, steadily contracts and dwindles ? Why does this Book increase while all others de crease ? There is no natural explanation for these remarkable facts. In this day, when a natural explanation is sought for all things, the wise men can advance no theory to account for these facts. We sometimes hear, from the enemies of the truth, the ad mission that the Bible is inspired, but coupled with the state- ment that other books are equally inspired. For example, a prominent preacher in New York city recently said in an article published in a popular magazine, “God spake to Abra ham, and to Samuel and to Isaiah. He has spoken to Henry Ward Beecher, to Tennyson, and to Ruskiri.” But neither this prominent preacher, nor any other man who is trying in like manner to put the Word of God on the same level as other books, is able to tell us why the writings of these other “in spired men do not afford some indications of their divine origin similar to those characteristics of the Bible to which we are now calling attention. , The Apostle Paul in the last of his writings (2 Tim. 2: 8, 9) said, “Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was; raised from the dead according to my gospel; wherein I suffer as an evil-doer even unto bonds; but th e word of God is not bound.” In ^these words we have the sufficient and the only ex planation of the extraordinary and unique career of the Bible. The human custodian of the Word of God may be bound, and may be treated as a malefactor for merely being the bearer of the message; but the living Word of the living God is not, and cannot be, bound. Jehovah Himself has said, “So shall My Word be that goeth forth out of My mouth. It shall not return unto Me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it” (Isa. 55:11)..
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